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Must Download Data• What Does NCLB's DC Opportunity Scholarship Program Tell Us About Vouchers?

Rules of the Game• NCEERA on Best Practice in ELL

A Little Knowledge• What Does Former Education Secretary Rod Paige's Company Chartwell Do? A Situational Analysis of Pontiac, Michigan

K-12 Program Review• No Studies of Failure Free Reading Meet What Works Clearinghouse Evidence Standards"Act: To close the achievement gap"• Returns Soon - This Week the Space Displays a Figure for the Editorial

Letter from the Editor • The Nation Slowly Builds the Capacity to Base Program Decisions on Cost-Effectiveness

Editorial - Our Industryâ��s Interests in NCLB II: (VI) Peer Review Procedures Matter to an Emerging Industry. From This Week's New Education EconomyÂ®Essential reading for industry professionals.Download for free at www.edbizbuzz.com until June 1.Guest Perspective • Bill Bavin: Using the Education Industry Market Matrix to Explain the Evolving School Improvement Industry• Political Symbolism 101: Secretary Spellings Speaks to Charter School Operators at Their Annual Conference

Must Download Data • Returns Next Week.

Rules of the Game • Secretary Spellings' Letter to Chief State School Officers on NCLB II: Sticking With "No Retreat, No Surrender"

A Little Knowledge • Voyager Identifies a "Best Practice" in Program Marketing - Doing and Explaining Program Evaluation

K-12 Program Review
• Read, Write and Type™ Shows How to Barely Pass a What Works Clearinghouse Review

"An Act: To close the achievement gap" • SEC. 1111(e) & 1203(c): Peer Review Procedures for Title I Part A Basic Programs and Reading First

If the matter is posed in the form "should we allow it to happen in our public schools?", that train left the station several decades ago.

The real question is "what kind of privatization?" Today's, based on marketing budgets and the provision of inputs? Or the one offered by school improvement providers; grounded in working partnerships with educators and offering shared responsibility for outputs?

Must Download Data Ã¢ï¿½Â¢ NGA, CCSO, NASBE: Joint Statement on NCLBÃ¢ï¿½Â¢ National Governors Association: Position PaperÃ¢ï¿½Â¢ Council of Chief State School Officers: Recommendations To Reauthorize The Elementary And Secondary Education ActÃ¢ï¿½Â¢ National Association of State Boards of Education: NCLB Reauthorization ~ Guiding Principles

Ã¢ï¿½ï¿½An Act: To close the achievement gapÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½ Ã¢ï¿½Â¢ Section 1002: School Improvement

Letter from the Editor Ã¢ï¿½Â¢ Our IndustryÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½s Interests in NCLB II: A Closer Look at School Improvement

Editorial: Reading First Mess Reveals a Management Failure More than a Manager’s Failings (I and II)Give-Away: Send us your name, position in the industry, what you like about SIIW • The Podcast, and what you'd like to hear about in the future by November 15, 2006. We'll select a winner at random for the New iPod shuffle. Email: editor@siiwonline.com.

Editorial: If Your Business is School Improvement, NCLB's AYP and SBR Provisions Set Your Playing Field; Guest Perspective: Kati Elliot - Little Dog in the Big Dog Park? How Small Publishers Can Play Without Getting Bitten; RFP of the Week: Consider the Department of Defense Education Activity.

Editorial: What Are a Trade Group's First Priorities?; Perspective: Phadke on The Online Global Tutor-Student Exchange; RFP of The Week from K-12Leads: Tuscon's Getting Every Requirement It Can Specified Up Front

Editorial: K-12 R&D - The Problem is Incentives, Not Investment; Perspective: Mission Smarts on the Need to Localize Venture Philanthropy; RFP of The Week: Two New Market Segments - Truancy Reduction and Student Newsletters

Editorial: Entrepreneurial Firms or Textbook Publishers: Who Will Write Our Next Chapter?; Perspective: EIA's Steve Pines On Lessons Learned from their First Legislative Campaign; RFP of the Week: Join a University-District Math/Science Collaboration.

Editorial: NCLB Reauthorization Should Be About Embedding the Industry in Federal Policy; Perspective: KEH's Kati Elliot - Gaining the Support of Education Buyers; School Imporvement Markets Report "RFP of The Week" - A "Ground Floor" Chance to Repurpose Skills for a New Market Segment

Editorial: Value-Added, Valuing Teachers, and Corporate Values in School Improvement (II); Perspective: Returns Next Week; School Improvement Markets Report's RFP of the Week: Miamiâ��s Teacher-Centered School Reform Program

Editorial: Value-Added, Valuing Teachers, and Corporate Values in School Improvement (I); Perspective: Jason Casarino's Mission Smarts: Go Wide or Go Deep?â��A Career Experiment; School Improvement Markets Report's RFP of the Week: State Assessments of Students Under NCLB

Editorial: Thinking About the Think Tank's Role in the School Improvement Industry; Perspective: Education Capital Group's Bill Bavin - Why Emerging Education Businesses Fail Before They Ever Get Off the Ground

Editorial: Our Mental Market Map (the map can be found at www.siiwonline.com/OurMktMap.html), Highlights of the Week, Guest Column: CoSN's Elizabeth Engel on the Cyber Classroom of Tomorrow - in Five Years.

Editorial- RAND's Evaluation of Edison: A Miss is as Good as a Mile; SI Weekly Highlights - Everything NAEP, Reading First Conflicts of Interest, Offshoring E-Tutoring, Cascarino on Small Nonprofits' Acting Big

Letter from the Editor: Organizing the District (IV) - Reconstruction for Success Under NCLB, Highlights from this week's issue, Guest Column: Keith Krueger and Jon Bernstein on Threats to Federal EdTech Funding.

Editorial: A Strategy of Compassion is Called for in KatrinaÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½s Aftermath; 9/12 SII Weekly Highlights; Guest Column: Steve Pines on EIAÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½s Response to Katrina. Please letr us know about your role in the school imprivement industry and interests in future editorials at editor@siiwonline.com

Rules for Educators Purchasing School Improvement Programs, Weekly Highlights, EIA President Pines on An Ethical Industry.
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